Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia
 | |
| Type | national association |
|---|---|
| Purpose | administration of breeds of sheep and goats |
| Headquarters | 1587 Viale Palmiro Togliatti, 00155 Roma |
Region served | Italy |
Official language | Italian |
President | Marco Antonio Scalas |
| Affiliations | Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali |
| Website | www.assonapa.it |
The Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, or roughly "national association of pastoralists", is the Italian national body responsible for the administration of sheep- and goat-breeding. It maintains the herd books for more than a hundred indigenous breeds of sheep and goats. It records breed numbers and submits them twice yearly to DAD-IS, and keeps records for all breeders of sheep and goats in the country.[1]
Breeds
The association maintains genealogical herdbooks for seventeen principal breeds of sheep, of which eight – the Altamurana, Comisana, Delle Langhe, Leccese, Massese, Pinzirita, Sarda and Valle del Belice – are milk breeds, and nine – the Appenninica, Barbaresca, Bergamasca, Biellese, Fabrianese, Gentile di Puglia, Laticauda, Merinizzata Italiana and Sopravissana - are meat breeds.[1] It also maintains genealogical herd books for the eight principal goat breeds, the Camosciata delle Alpi or Chamois Coloured Goat, the Garganica, Girgentana, Jonica, Maltese, Orobica, Rossa Mediterranea, Saanen and Sarda. A less stringent herd book is kept for forty-six indigenous sheep breeds and forty-three goat breeds of limited distribution.[2][a]
Note
^ For reasons that are not clear, the Valgerola breed of goat, which is considered to be the same as the Orobica, is separately reported to DAD-IS[3][4] and is included in the list of goat breeds of limited distribution; if it is excluded, the total number of such breeds is forty-two rather than forty-three.
References
^ ab L'Associazione (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Accessed September 2013.
^ Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE - Allegato 2 - Capitolo 2) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section I (e). Archived 4 December 2013.
^ Breed data sheet: Orobica o Valgerola/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed November 2014.
^ Breed data sheet: Valgerola/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed November 2014.
 | This article about an organisation based in Italy is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
